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is there any way that i can get files off my broken computer? when i turn it on it just says some message and i've googled and a couple months ago and such and basically its not fixable, at least not without a pro. but the thing is that i dont want to fix it if its gonna loose my files. please help! if i need to add more info just say so!
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If your harddrive(s) is good, if this is not a harddrive hardware failure, it's not a big deal to recover.
Bypassing solutions that could be employed to attempt repair of your operating system, let's jump ahead and focus on data recovery.
The easiest thing would be to remove your harddrive, and knowing what type it is, (IDE or SATA), get a USB or Firewire enclosure that will work with it. I have MACALLY enclosures and have found them to be excellent. There are many other good ones, though.
(Buy.com or Newegg.com are excellent online sources, and you might find enclosures on the shelves of Best Buy, Staples, or whatever other retail store might carry this sort of thing.)
With the drive in an enclosure, you then have a few choices. You can just hang on to it that way until you have a new PC, and hook it up to copy over your data to that new computer.
You can also hook up the enclosure to a host machine and either burn the data to DVDs, or copy it to a flash drive that's large enough to hold it all.
In the end, you'll have this spare drive in an enclosure that you can use for backups, additional storage, data transfer, etc.
I hope that helps!
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